0:00 thank you [Music] Nick is gonna love this one I don't think so there's a there's a comparison that's going around that's kind of like ruffling some feathers uh I'd be ready for this and uh it is the paid disparity between the highest paid WNBA player why would I love this oh wait in the highest paid Fitness coach no paid uh NBA player no even worse okay so look at this the Denver Nuggets mascot makes 625k a year really so much yeah the massive mascot are you kidding 6 25k a year did he just get punched in the face by Conor McGregor is that is it the
0:50 Denver Nuggets yeah yeah yeah yeah he did he did he had to go to the hospital I rather watch the mascot during the halftime show than the actual basketball game all right A lot of people have that opinion honestly the highest paid WNBA player makes 228k all right you know what I have a question they're not doing Apples to Apples no yeah yeah all right here's the question what is the highest paid cheerleader in the NBA I don't know I don't believe are they getting more or less than the wmb might be like 50 Grand maybe yeah the WNBA player is doing making more than the cheerleader that's that's got in a woman that's not the same thing
1:41 well the the comparison is it's a woman to woman yeah and then one is an athlete and one is a dance athlete it's a dastly yeah but then it had like uh like certain uh WMA players tweeting I can learn to be a mascot that's funny if they make it your size maybe yeah but again within that like that pay Gap disparity of where it's based on the money that comes in yeah Denver Nuggets are rolling in dough right for the championship too so they are gonna pay any affiliate of the company a lot is the person writing the article complaining no I think they're trying to stoke a complaint the way that I see things is like instead of complaining learn from models that have been successful so in the UFC
2:31 Ronda Rousey has been able to get paid way more than any of their male fighter like probably 90 of them great example so how do we get WNBA like what's the marketing strategy or business strategy how do we get that like that and also too to piggyback off Barts the UFC ring girls at male MMA fighters have made the same complaint about the UFC ring girls making more money than the actual MMA fighters yeah right yeah because sometimes a purse is lower than what they're paid to be there right exactly but when you look at the UFC ring girls they're such a big part of the brand of the UFC and the whole experience to the whole show right and they always like acknowledge the ring girls as like the celebrities of like the because they all make six figures and above and then some of the starting Fighters will only make
3:21 like 10 grand yeah absolutely and then you extrapolate that to maybe the mascot of the Denver Nuggets it's like they're a giant well I don't know about well now this year they've definitely been really big because they won the championship they're the number one team in the west which is the most competitive um um division yeah conference right and then you have the mascot who's like who can also dunk by the way yeah dude he doesn't he do like a halftime show he's like running up and down the ████ uh he's not just a guy just ████ around like this guy has actual skills yeah yeah and he can die what he's doing he's punched in the face you went to the hospital dude I can't even dunk without a mask on yeah costume on but also it goes back to what bar said it's the NBA is a way bigger Market than the WNBA unfortunately but that's just what the numbers are the question is how do we get more people to go to WNBA games well the players I feel like the players have to be willing to like
4:12 change they don't want to change ████ they don't want to change all of the uh interviews they're they're like oh we don't want to change the height of the the basket because I've been shooting on like a 10 foot all my life even though but Shaq recommended it remember he checked brought it up that's what he said I didn't say it start dunking yeah they could just they could just play because it's entertainment even though it is athleticism it is entertainment right so like yeah no sorry I was gonna say the W there's no WNBA player who's waving her gun on Instagram live like John Morant is like think about all the news that go you need more Capers surrounding the league well you think about all the the biggest players in the NBA they all have some sort of controversy they all have honestly you need drama sales and drama is free market the WNBA they're they're
5:02 squeaky clean I feel like a lot of the best basketball player like I can't tell you who the best best the best WNBA player is but I can tell you who the best MMA uh women's fighter maybe they would benefit from having a narrative uh Builder like the MMA has yeah or WWE yeah imagine that I mean that'd be great because sports fans like we don't watch it and I was having this conversation with a client of mine she was she was talking about like oh yeah like my husband always gets mad at me for watching uh reality TV shows and I was making the point that Sports is just male reality reality right but just in the form of something else right because it's like what people want to talk about is like how is LeBron going to play against the finals with a with a torn ACL or whatever like how is he gonna perform is he getting too old like all these questions we care about we want to
5:52 hear it's like keeping up with khabibs exactly oh dude what watch that show you kidding me Rock Solid oh that's another bear today there is a lack of that potentially maybe that's where they could start where they can get more eyes like what would be cool is like if we can get everybody who's um like what if this happened if you complained about the pay disparity you automatically get your card charged for season passes to the people that are complaining don't even they're not even into sports they're not even going to the game there's this one street interview right and then this guy asked a bunch of girls they're like so do you guys know who Floyd Mayweather is and they're like yeah um he's that boxer yeah so if he identified as a woman do you think it would be fair if he starts fighting in
6:42 the women's league and then they're like yeah completely they're like women can be just as strong as men all those girls look unathletic they don't look like they've ever played Sports it's just death sentences this is the thing so I think I would kill a guy that's that's the issue is people that have nothing no knowledge just imagine that yeah this girl's the same size she has the same strength like they're they don't even know they're just making decisions and then so the people that are complaining about most of the stuff I truly believe it's coming from ignorant folks that have no idea like women are that are in the sport are probably embarrassed of some of the other complaints coming from ████ idiots yeah so like and I also think like um the argument of like like gender discrimination in like
7:33 income disparity right A lot of it is rooted in outdated ideas of how men view women for example like it was rooted in truth because there was a time when they're like oh girls aren't allowed to work in this field because they're just not smart enough or whatever right yeah but we've gone long past that point it's about economics and practicality what company doesn't want a high performing individual to make money for them that's how it works right whether it's male or female they want the most effective method to extract the most income out of this person's performance these people are still stuck the people that are making this argument are still stuck on uh men don't like women and don't respect women therefore they won't
8:24 pay women the same rate which is a very victim mindset yeah not only victim but a very incorrect yeah mentality of how companies work like that was true during the 1930s but we've gone way past that point and companies just want the best way to make income so for example in the NBA right like it's making a ton of money so they can pay their athletes x amount of dollars these people don't understand basic economics if the company is making a hundred bucks how can they pay the player a thousand dollars it doesn't make sense but that's what they don't understand is like if the company is not making anything and they're losing money how are they going to even survive opening but they they deserve more pay
9:15 is what they say right so I don't care you just gotta just gotta pay them worth somehow yeah right and then you look at all the big stars in the NBA why are they big stars they sell tons of jerseys they sell merch all out they're dropping 50 points a night they're exciting they they have story lines behind them and I feel like that's not out of the realm possibility for the WNBA to have just like say they're just one girl who's just a ████ Phenom yeah who just talks ████ to everybody you know like no but honestly like because people want to kind of see that ████ like why is Ronda Rousey popular why did when Ronda Rousey came to the MMA um when she was fighting in a different promotion that's not the UFC Dana White the president of UFC was like we will never have women's MMA fighters we will never have that that's just not what we're gonna do wow he saw her fight one night and saw the pop that she brought out and all the fans that came out and all the excitement that she brought and
10:06 he goes all right we're gonna make a division and we're gonna put Ronda Rousey as she's gonna she's gonna fight for the title like it was just that simple it was clear like she has something yeah I have a use for her and once she started losing what happens she doesn't find the UFC anymore she goes to WWE I heard she's making more money in WWE did in WFC definitely yeah because she's still doing what people want to see exactly what's that one chip that was uh that got popped for marijuana and she couldn't uh chat star oh yeah that's right yes it was her last name Richardson or something but just a little bit of drama everything single celebrity comes out and Baxters and then boom she gets like I think a Nike contract like you you need to add a
10:56 little bit more of that excitement to grow the sport and I think everyone in that that's part of the discussion is probably too sport focused yeah like our basketball is just as good how come they don't watch it yeah but you need the whole package like you know what I think it is it's like Olympics versus NBA or NFL or like any other actual major sports that are happening like every year it's entertaining there's a whole like industry behind it whereas the Olympics it's more like yeah you're just watching it for that sport exactly but then it doesn't go anywhere yeah like men's France basketball yeah they probably make even less than the WNBA yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and make people give a ████ like why do we care why do we pay attention to the 100 meter sprint Usain Bolt yeah right like we watch that because we want to see this guy who's who doesn't talk much but who's
11:47 exceptional you want to see the guy that ████ Sprints looks at second place I mean Michael Phelps right it's not because he was a man that he was it's because he's a Phenom it's it's crazy it's a story 15 gold medals like that's insulting he's gonna yeah he's gonna break the record of like Mark Spitz or whatever this freaking thing I think like anything it's just such a common sense solution to me it's like if you really believe that something should earn more money yeah give your money to the thing and talking about more WNBA games than most women I know I've been to like eight that's why I've been to none because I don't believe in that I've been to none
12:47 thank you
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